Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Brothers, pray for us.
And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer. And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there. The men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”
And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
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